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Yeah I got lost as to what you were trying to do man. Good that you figured it out!

Hi Brendan, Are you still having difficulties with this thread or have we managed to solve the issue you've been having?

Thanks Naghirniac, Since I posted this I've looked further in to the CMS update and found that each and every page on our site (around 8,000) has a relative canonical link on it which points to itself. They also cannot be edited thus making them completely useless! Gotta love these CMS developers! URRRGGGGHHHHH!!! Thanks anyway, Brendan.

I can't imagine Google wouldn't take notice of a link like you're describing, if they'd come from an authoratative site. An example: http://jguide.stanford.edu/directory/url.lasso?id=1809&lang=en&url=http%3A//www.fashioninjapan.com/ The server header is a temporary 302 redirect though in this case, which isn't as valuable as a 301.

Thanks for letting us know, and that's great to hear!

Hi EGOL, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, redirecting the subdomain to the root isn't an option due CMS limitations. We're looking at this long term. For now I've added a link to the wedding stationery page using keyword anchor text from every page of the subdomain including the high PA pages. Any more ideas? It seems crazy that the homepage ranks for this term given there are no optimised links to it and the keyword appears only as links to the pages we want to rank. Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys, I guess it's a case of keyword relevancy so I'll have to be happy with just the 8! Cheers,

Thanks for that Yumi. Although some product pages are slightly different, I still think they're too similar to be called 'unique'.

Thanks a lot guys. Plenty of advice there for me to be looking at and cracking on with.